Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 11 Jan 1940, p. 12

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The. authors, Ben, Heeht and Charlie MacArthur, are Iwo ex-Chi- cago. newspaper, men and are, in a position to know Wlhat'it is ail about. They havre set their stage iný the press room of the Crimninal Courts building, Chicago, where their char- acters, those poker-playing, whiskey- drlnking, evil. young men carry. on the dailyr routine of following such murders, fires,« riots and other pub- lie events as concern them. Plan, Public Tryout The Threshold ýPlayers will con- tinue their policy1 of the last - few seasons of holdin a public tryout for the various parts that are ava il- able in the new'show. "The'Front Page" has a large cast requiring seventeen men and five 'women,' which offers a chance for, diversified characterization. The production date have ben set for Febrtmiry 23 and 24. The tryouts will be held .Monday night, January 15, at the Threshold studio, Park avenue and Glencoe road, at 8:00 p.m, Hèlen Bueil, who will direct "The Frott Page" wlll be in charge. This tryout meeting is open to the, public, and the Thresholders an- nounce that anyone who is interest- ed li any phase of the production, either acting or back stage worIç should make every effort to be pres- East During Holidays Mr. and Mrs. Charles. L. Allen moved their family duriug the Christmas holidays from. the East into the house they have rented at 1144 Lake avenue,. Wilmette., Mr. Allen then returned to> com- plete his semester's work at Rutgers university where he is head of the denartc'nt of inIrnahism. andi in 'VA Mabel appeals to. the "Bobb:e"-for aid inL the Jack atidJil produc- tion of "Thé Pirates of Penzantce," ,c oming, to the Winnetka Cômrmurtity House Saturday morning, January 13, at theflntnetka Childrens', Hour. NorthShore Students .Actiýve, In, N. U Sylla bus Production - - - __ - - - ----------41Ni1e e st1derïts rnn Witnehtt afldI Boy ScoutsJ ORDER 0F THE ARROIV The Scouts and Scout leaders of the Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan chapter of the Order of the Arrow of the North -Shore Area council held its annual at this meeting -was Bob Black, chief for 1939. The new officers elected1 are as foilows: Chief, Stanley Gamble, Wauike- gan; Vice-Chief, Bob Maeser, Kenil- Worth; Secretary, Chuck Wells, Glencoe; Treasurer, Stan Turner, Highland Park; Medicine-mfan, Ed Weigel, Wilmette-. Kenilworth are among Northwestern university students now working on the Syllabus, school yearbook, which wuill be distributed at the end of the school. year. For a number of years the Sylla- bus has received first class honor rating among college yearbooks throughout the country. It usually consists of about 400 illustrated Domh juniors, select their'assi5tants who aid in the bôok's publication and circulation. Pictures of all mem- bers of the junior class, with bio- graphiéal rnaterial on each of them, are included in the Syllabus. This year Philip Murphy of E vans- ton is editor, and Thad Snell, Ida Grove, Ia., is business manager. George Edward Moore, of 633 Laurel "Today we have ten million womn- en comnpeting wlth men in nearly ev- ery fièld," he said. "«This business, association makes for a newù situa- tion',which, tends to- break down the old formhalitiesË."I« The woÔman'has always played the aggresSive part in pr oposais any- way, the Northwestern professor de- clared. "Courtship has been defined as a* man chasing -a w oman until. she catches him," he smiled. '.The old standards of rËeticence made it pos- sible for: the womanto play her part a litie more ýsubtly,, but today girls are quite - brazen about their deter- mination toget a man." This change in attitude is reflec 1t- ed in such things as perfume.adver- tising, "almost guaranteed-tô geta nman"; in the advice to the lovelorn columns; and in the "broad exhibi- tionism vf resen$a'day feminie dress, Dr. Todd declared. "We are in a period of transition," he said, "between traditional auth- ority and the new scientific sanc- tions, which are not yet proved or generally accepted. The evidences of feminine aggressiveness, from the perfume to the strip tease acts on the beach, are just part of a groping philosophy of irmmediate Plea sure." Tomas B. Headley, whosehomne is said to be Germantown, Pa., but who for some time has been living at 519 Forest avenue, was arrested Tuesday by the police, on a warý- rant signed by Stepheii Shimonek, 901 Green Bay road, the charge be- ing based upon the cashing of a check for $15 by Shimonek, signed, by Headley, and drawn on the Wil- mette State bank, where he had no md their sons and daughters, dj Jr., Charles, Thomas, lived li Chicago for the past two ane, Robert and Phyllils, have years, returned to the village in to tlir new'address at 528 Urne te celebrate Christmas aere, avenue. The Kents, who have having moved li n i December 23.. ur~ zrm~rof New Trier. Schltz formn- ehool: teacher xi 'nthe are former

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